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Verse Judges 17:3. _I HAD WHOLLY DEDICATED_] From this it appears that
Micah's mother, though she made a superstitious use of the money, had
no _idolatrous_ design, for she expressly says she had dedi...
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Such a superstitious and unlawful mode of worshipping Yahweh is quite
of a piece with Judges 8:27; Judges 11:31; 1 Kings 12:28, etc. It
argues but slight acquaintance with the Ten Commandments, which,...
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III. THE APPENDIX: ISRAEL'S INTERNAL CORRUPTION
1. Micah's and Dan's Idolatry and Its Punishment
CHAPTER 17 The Images Made and the Hired Priest
_ 1. The stolen money restored and the images (Judge...
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MICAH'S GRAVEN IMAGE. The dread of a curse, uttered by an indignant
mother against the unknown thief of her money, made the culprit, her
own son, confess his guilt. At a certain stage of religious
dev...
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JUDGES 17-18. This section is the first of two supplements. It
explains the origin of the famous shrine at Dan, and the _naî veté_
of its moral and religious ideas proves how ancient it is. In not a
f...
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WHOLLY DEDICATED. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). Hebrew
"dedicating. had dedicated it"....
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_from my hand for my son_ LXX. cod. A and Luc. reads _from my hand
alone_, with a slight change in the Hebr.; i.e. the mother alone, the
rightful owner, could carry out the vow; so Moore, Lagrange. Bu...
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FOR MY SON, TO MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE, AND A MOLTEN IMAGE— It is very
plain, from the sequel, that the intention of this woman was, not to
form any images of false gods to herself, but to make a represen...
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DOUBLE APPENDIX Judges 17:1 to Judges 21:25
The Idolatry of Dan Judges 17:1 to Judges 18:31
Micah's Images...
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_AND WHEN HE HAD RESTORED THE ELEVEN HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER TO HIS
MOTHER, HIS MOTHER SAID, I HAD WHOLLY DEDICATED THE SILVER UNTO THE
LORD FROM MY HAND FOR MY SON, TO MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE AND A MOL...
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GRAVEN IMAGE] specifically, an idol carved out of wood or stone, or,
generally, any kind of idol. 'Molten image' was added, not (as it
would seem) to denote a second idol ('they' in Judges 17:4 should...
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THE STORY OF MICAH
This story, which is continued in the following c, is undoubtedly a
very old one. In striking contrast to many other narrative portions of
the Old Testament, there is in the body of...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 17
V1 There was a man called Micah from the hilly country where
Ephraim’s *tribe lived. V2 He said to his mother, ‘Someone stole
the 1100 pieces of...
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I HAD WHOLLY DEDICATED THE SILVER. — Literally, _Consecrating, I
consecrated_ — either, “I have _now_ consecrated it” as a
thanksgiving for its restoration, or “I had done so before it was
stolen.”
F...
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וַ יָּ֛שֶׁב אֶת ־אֶֽלֶף ־וּ מֵאָ֥ה הַ
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THE STOLEN GODS
Judges 17:1, Judges 18:1
THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth
chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with
that which has gone b...
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Here begins the final section of the Book of Judges which is of the
nature of an appendix. The events here recorded must have taken place
closely following the death of Joshua. They give us a picture...
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And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his
mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the
LORD from my hand for my son, to make a (b) graven image and...
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God. Hebrew pesel umaseca. The word thing, would perhaps be as well
substituted, as (Haydock) all are not convinced that the woman was
guilty of idolatry. (Cajetan) --- The same figure might be both g...
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And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his
mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the
LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molt...
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My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire
to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar
character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21.
The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical
order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of
the...
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AND WHEN HE HAD RESTORED THE ELEVEN HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER TO HIS
MOTHER,.... The whole sum, having embezzled none of it:
HIS MOTHER SAID, I HAD WHOLLY DEDICATED THE SILVER UNTO THE LORD FROM
MY H...
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And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his
mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the
LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a mo...
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_I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord_ The meaning seems to
be, that when she had lost the money, she vowed, that if she recovered
it, she would dedicate it to the Lord, and her superstitio...
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1 Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother
maketh Images,
5 and hee ornaments for them.
6 He hireth a Leuite to be his Priest.
1 AND there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose na...
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And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his
mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the
Lord from my hand for my son to make a graven image and a molte...
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THE MAKING OF THE IMAGE...
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BOLD IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL
(vv. 1-13)
Samson was the last judge in Israel. The last five Chapter s of Judges
-- 17 to 21 -- deal with conditions during the time of the Judges, so
do not necessarily tak...
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1-6 What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end
of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see chap.
Judges 20:28. That it might appear how happy the nation was under...
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THE LORD; in the Hebrew it is _Jehovah_, the incommunicable name of
God; whereby it is apparent that neither she nor her son intended to
forsake the true God or his worship; as appears from his rejoic...
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Judges 17:3 returned H7725 (H8686) hundred H505 H3967 silver H3701
mother H517 mother H517 said H559 ...
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Judges 17:3 a
‘And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother,
and his mother said, “I truly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my
hand for my son, to make a graven image and a mol...
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CONTENTS: Micah's worship in self will.
CHARACTERS: Micah, his mother, a Levite.
CONCLUSION: The love of money makes much mischief; destroys the duty
and comfort of every relation and frequently lea...
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Judges 17:1. _A man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah._ This was
soon after the death of Joshua, says Josephus, and before the civil
war with Benjamin.
Judges 17:2. _About which thou cursedst._...
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_Micah._
MICAH’S MOTHER
In the second verse of this chapter Micah makes a clean confession of
a great wrong which he had done to his mother. “It seems,” says
Matthew Henry, “that this old woman, with...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 17:1 The Depths of Israel’s Unfaithfulness.
Whereas chs. Judges 2:1 describe external threats to Israel, chs....
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 17:3 A CARVED IMAGE. (See Exodus 20:4.) These
were normally carved from wood or chiseled out of rock but sometimes
were made from a mold (compare...
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IDOLATRY IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE—BY IMAGE-WORSHIP
(Judges 17:1.)
_HOMILETICS_
I. IDOLATRY BEGINS WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT UPRIGHT IN MORAL CONDUCT.
Judges 17:1.
Micah himself is first heard of as stea...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 17:1
We here light upon quite a different kind of history from that which
has preceded. We no longer have to do with judges and their mighty
deeds in delivering Israel from his oppr...
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At this point the book of Judges, as far as its history, ends. What
remains in the book of Judges is not now in chronological order. This
is an appendix to the book of Judges as we get into chapter se...
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Deuteronomy 12:3; Exodus 20:23; Exodus 20:4; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk